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How to Reduce Presentation Anxiety in 3 Steps

Do presentations or public speaking give you so much anxiety which makes your voice shaky, and make you feel like you are about to pass out? I have always been super anxious about presentations and public speaking(including class participation), which made me avoid them as much as possible. But as time went by, I realized that this was only making things worst even though it gave me temporary relieve. So I asked myself, “What is making me anxious and why am I so afraid”? That’s how I came up with these 3 steps.

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What Does it Mean to Invest in Yourself

If you have any form of social media, you’ve probably seen people posting their achievements, travels, lavish lifestyles, designer merchandise  etc and sometimes you may feel like you’re not doing enough for yourself. I’ve been trying to answer what it really means to invest in myself and at first I thought it was all about becoming financially stable and making a name for myself but I’ve come to realize that, that’s just 10% of it. So what’s the other 90% ?

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BECOMING A MORNING PERSON

Despite going to boarding school for 7 years and having to wake up at 4/5 am almost every day, I have never considered myself a morning person. I’ve been trying really hard to go to bed by 10 or 11pm in order to wake up by 6 am, but that hasn’t been going really well, because my body still gets a spark of energy at 11:00pm and that’s when I want to get everything done. It’s like my peak hour. So why do I even want to become a morning person?

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LET’S TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH

I’ve been trying to avoid writing about this topic for a while but I realized that I have an obligation to shade light on this topic which isn’t talked about in my community. I know what it means to hit rock bottom because of mental health challenges and I also know what it means to pick yourself up and start to rebuild from scratch. This is a glimpse to my journey so it may or may not apply to you